A real hot box. I had never seen one before and I don't recall whether the coach was used again back to Chicago that day.

An A-B-B-A set of Lehigh Valley F3 units backs down to pick up a train. The Pennsylvania Railroad had increased its stock ownership of LV by this time as the tuscan red color scheme of 522 illustr... (more)

The Penn Central main line is busy as a GP38-2 leads another EMD and two GE units on a westbound freight at Buffalo. Look at all of those American Motors Corporation autos.

Two Milwaukee Road FP7 units have arrived from Omaha with THE ARROW. The lead units displays the train number in the number board as was the practice with SP and UP.

Brand-new Budd RDCs 9156 & 9155 sit on display at Bethlehem. The trucks and undercarriage were painted blue which brought to mind the 1937 streamlined G1sas Pacifics that pulled the Budd-built CRU... (more)

Burlington's big O-5B 4-8-4 5632 is serviced at Galesburg enroute from Lincoln, NE to Chicago. I rode the NEBRASKA ZEPHYR from Chicago to intercept the excursion during daylight.

N&W Y6b 2179 and Y6a 2157 roll down the Blue Ridge grade in reverse during a light engine move.

The GRAND CANYON arrives at Dearborn Station behind F3 A-B-B-B units late in the afternoon.

New York Central J1c Hudson 5273 steams into Oneida eastbound in one of my father's old shots. This 4-6-4 is a bit of a star, having been featured in renderings in a 1930 railroad publication, THE... (more)

Former Erie PA-1 852 has cut off a passenger train from Hoboken at Port Jervis.

Reading crane 90906 and Jersey Central crane 5 and accompanying cars are at East Penn Jct. to clean up a derailment of several freight cars.

This train was at the end of my August 1958 visit to Roanoke. It had rained quite hard that afternoon but then the sun broke through dramatically. Two Y6s pull on an eastbound freight and the lead... (more)

Canadian National U-4-a 6402 is stored servicable at the railroad's large engine terminal in Toronto. It had recently been withdrawn from commuter service.

Lehigh Valley GP18 304 leads a mixed consist of Alco RS-11, Alco and EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem, Pa..

GP9 units 4916, 4910 and 4139 are ready to depart with the MAPLE LEAF on an overcast June morning. The train on the left is ATSF no. 16, TEXAS CHIEF, just in.